Bordentown

Bordentown is a city in Burlington County, New Jersey. In 1682, the English Quaker Thomas Farnsworth and his family settled in the area after moving from Burlington, and the settlement was named for Joseph Borden, who arrived in 1717 and founded a New York City-Philadelphia transportation system in 1740. During the American Revolutionary War, it was captured by the Hessians in 1776 and was pillaged and razed by the British in May and June of 1778. Bordentown was incorporated as a borough on 9 December 1825 and as a city on 3 April 1867, and it had a population of 3,851 people in 2016.